How to find missing records from tables involving composite primary keys

Table 1

Code	Quarter
500002	26
500002	27
500002	28
500002	28.5
500002	29

Table 2

Code	Qtr
500002	26
500002	27

I have these two identical tables with the columns CODE & Qtr being COMPOSITE PRIMARY KEYS

Can anybody help me with how to compare the two tables to find the records not present in Table 2

That is i need this result

Code	Quarter
500002	28
500002	28.5
500002	29

I have come up with this solution

select scrip_cd,Qtr,scrip_cd+Qtr from Table1 where
scrip_cd+Qtr not in (select scrip_cd+qtr as 'con' from Table2)

i need to know if there is some other way of doing the same

Thanks in Advance

Jacx

You can use the following query too...

Select
A.Code,
A.Quarter
From
[Table 1] A
Left Outer Join [Table 2] B on A.Code = B.Code And A.Quarter = B.Quarter
Where
B.Code is NULL

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Using NOT EXISTS is the fastest way to solve your problem. Use query below:

select t1.scrip_cd, t1.Qtr

from Table1 as t1

where not exists(

select * from Table2 as t2

where t2.scrip_cd = t1.scrip_cd and t2.Qtr = t1.Qtr

)